I'm having some problems with kernels in the areas of booting and
network. First some background :
I now have a laptop (Dell 7500) at work that I am allowed to install
Debian (woohoo!). The install went great. I used a potato cd (2.2r2)
then switched to woody. The machine has a 3Com PCMCIA ne
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:22:39PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote:
| On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:16:16PM -0400 or thereabouts, dman wrote:
| >
| > I'm having some problems with kernels in the areas of booting and
| > network. First some background :
| >
| > I now have a laptop (Del
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:34:30PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
| On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:26:06PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
| > > Sure, stable is always well tested, but by the time it becomes available
| > > the software included in it is so old that nobody wants to run it
| > > anymore.
| >
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:54:38PM -0400, Rossy Roman Salgado wrote:
| On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, dman wrote:
| > I'm having some problems with kernels in the areas of booting and
| > network. First some background :
...
| Did you include into your custom kernel drivers for IDE dis
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:29:07PM +0100, George wrote:
| Heya People,
|
| I was wondering if there's any way I can get my linux box/server/gateway to
to act as a something similar to a print server.
|
| Basically, I've got my windows box, 2 linux boxen, and a freebsd box
| all hooked up to the
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:04:43PM -0400, Akintayo Holder wrote:
| hi,
| I am trying to install palm dev tools on woody. I would like to knwo
how
| you set the search path for the GCC compiler ? any information about
| where i can find the env var of file containing the path would be nice.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:31:49AM +0100, Ricardo Diz wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I have a Pentium II 266MHz in a laptop and everytime I start linux
| it thinks the cpu is a Pentium II 182.0MHz?!!
|
| Does anyone know why?
Can you get to the mobo? Perhaps it is underclocked. What does the
BIOS say about
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:50:32AM +0200, oivvio polite wrote:
|
| I might soon have to set up some 20 - 30 boxes supporting some 200 students.
| They'll want to do word processing, browse the web, read mail.
Web and mail work great with Linux, but as the previous poster said
word processing i
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:38:31AM -0700, Lucho Debianero wrote:
| Im planning to buy a dell inspiron new 8100, anybody
| knows if there is any problem with woody specially
| with the internal-pci modem and ethernet?
Do you have the model number? That usually helps when researching
hardware comp
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:16:35PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote:
[lots of flames snipped]
| Can you name me a single OSS app that works on MORE than just UNIX? (windows,
| 9x, 2000/XP, AtheOS, et al)
How about one in particular that you like - KDE?
-D
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:57:11PM -0700, Bob Frankstein wrote:
| I have installed woody. After this I did:
|
| apt-get install x-window-system
| apt-get install xlibs-dev
|
| Then when I try to run X it says it can't find default font: 'fixed'
dpkg -l \*xfonts\*
Make sure you have the necessar
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:26:35PM -0700, Steven Farrier wrote:
| I am trying to esd sound to work on my computer but I just can't do it.
|
| I can get genertic beeps on the command line but that is it.
|
| In windows it says I have a ES1869 audiodrive.
|
| I have read the soundblaster module is
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:25:48PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
| "V. T. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > I want a terminal based text editor that does word-wrap rather than just
| > wrapping in the middle of a word when it gets to the end of a line. "Joe"
| > seems to do this. Ca
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
| Is there an easy way to force apt to download a deb again? I seem
| to have got a corrupted one:
| I think it's just my download, not the version on the server, that's corrupt.
You could remove the local copy and see if that does it
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:18:46PM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote:
| Sorry for the very basic question:
|
| To adapt a program to Debian the author needs a core dump.
| He says the program *will* crash on Debian when started.
| But since I switched to Debian I didn't see any crashes :-)
If it didn'
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:57:06PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote:
| In your message of: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:06:19 EDT, you write:
...
| >As I was looking up info on the suspend-to-disk feature I found some
|
| I got suspend to disk working by setting up a partition with lphdisk
| from http://www.procy
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:24:12PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I have a problem with bash vars. For my KDE copileing stuff i have made some
| files wich contain the "configure" command so that i can easily alter it and
| that i can remember wich options i used. E.g. there is a file
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:48:12PM -0400, Giulio Morgan wrote:
| I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning of the
| sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must*
| remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon
|
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:09:20PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote:
| How do I install woody over a ppp connection?
|
| Here's what I've done so far:
| First I downloaded the images and created the three installation
| floppies,
|
| rescue.bin, root.bin, drivers.bin.
|
| The installation goes fine
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:49:39PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
| On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:09:03PM -0400, dman wrote:
| > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:57:06PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote:
| > | In your message of: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:06:19 EDT, you write:
| > ...
| > | >As I was loo
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:49:50PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
| Thus spake Matthew Dalton:
| > dman wrote:
| > >
| > > Ditto for vim.
| > >
| > > See ":help textwidth" and ":help formatoptions" for more details. For
| > > writing mails (su
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:54:39PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:34:51PM +0100, Lee Elliott ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
| > Just read this.
| >
| > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21830.html
|
| I *STRONGLY* encourage the use of descriptive subject lines and/or
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:04:45PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote:
| I am still trying to upgrade from potato to woody. With a modem this is a
| panfull process at best. Here it is 4 days latter and now I cannot get
| anywhere with it. Here is the error message that I get.
|
| Moving old app-defaul
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:15:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
| On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:43:19AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote:
| >
| > i'm curious. why is it that the textwidth has to be set to either
| > 70 or 72 when the console can display 80? my tw=79 how is my
| > message appearing?
|
| It's
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:00:26AM +0200, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote:
| On 27 Sep 2001, Jeremy Whetzel wrote:
|
| > I'm in the process of writing up a script that I need to be able to
| > "randomly" switch around the lines in a text file. (ala a random mp3
| > playlist) Would anyone have any suggest
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:09:40PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| yes,
|
| installing gpm pointing to psaux and editing XF86config file to point to
| gpmdata does make the mouse work in console (great!) and X (useless) since I
| can't even control the mouse pointer/buttons (moves to fast and do
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:55:50AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
| On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:20:04AM -0400, dman wrote:
| > | /dev/random gives random bits. I don't know where it is documented.
| > | There is a system call random() (see man 3 random). You could write a
| > | wrappe
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:01:09AM +0800, csj wrote:
| Is there an option to make the wheel in (what else) a wheel mouse behave
| like the middle button in a conventional mouse? A "friend" bought an
| optical mouse which unfortunately has this feature. I know about the
| chopsticks emulation, but I
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:16:07AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
[ stuff about international text input in vim6 ]
Somehow the default keymap for the console on my laptop from work is
set to use funky key combos for inserting international text. To get
a ~ or " I have to type the character then sp
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:10:36PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:55:26PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Tim Moss wrote:
| >
| > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:15:07 -0700 (PDT)
| > > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me.
|
| Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
| say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
It also gives a bad quoting app
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:33:02AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
| On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:19:45PM -0700, Tim Moss wrote:
| > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:06:50 +0200
| > "Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >
| > > Some time agoo I did the "Chroot Woody in 15 minutes" thing and
| > > happi
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:21:19AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
| I have been asked by an application developer, who is trying to find out
| problems with one of their products running on our server, to set up the
| server so that "core files can be written". What are these, and how would I
|
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:57:50PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
| Recently I've had to move my webserver from port 80 to another
| port (TimeWarner finally blocked off 80 for all personal accounts). For
| some dumb reason I chose 79, and now Netscape gives me security errors
$ grep 79 /etc/services
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:23:05PM -0400, dman wrote:
...
| Is there anything I can do other than wait for a fix?
Never mind. The wheels are turning a bit slowly. I just installed
the prev. version from /var/cache/apt/archives and all is well.
-D
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:28:45AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote:
| I have been postponing attempting to upgrade to testing on any of my
| computers because I've just got a regular modem and thought it would take
| too long. I finally bit the bullet this week. I've got a hand-me-down
| laptop that
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 07:44:48PM +0200, Jesper Holmberg wrote:
| * On Fri Sep 28, dman wrote:
| > Check out the frame buffer stuff. I found it to be really cool.
|
| How do I get this frame buffer stuff to work? I compiled the kernel with
| support for frame buffer, but obviously someth
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:37:39PM -0400, Ryan Hagan wrote:
| Greetings,
|
| I've checked the archives and seen plenty of people having trouble printing
| through Samba, but I've found none with the problem I'm having.
|
| Here's the scenario: I've installed my Epson Stylus Color 880 using
| C
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 12:36:14AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
|
| On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:22:54 +1000, Craig Sanders writes:
| >i often have to install vim on a system, then run "vi" and find i'm in
| >nvi rather than vim. yuk!
|
| I'm doing base-installs every time, and, quite often, find that
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:09:35AM -0400, Jeremy Hankins wrote:
| dman said:
| > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:23:05PM -0400, dman wrote:
|
| > | Is there anything I can do other than wait for a fix?
| >
| > Never mind. The wheels are turning a bit slowly. I just installed
| > th
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:30:21AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
| I would like to use the 3c3fe575ct pccard network card from 3Com on a
| 2.2.18 kernel.
This is a PCMCIA card, right? You need the 3c575_cb module and maybe
the 3c59x too. The menu probably mentions "vortex" in the description
s
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 12:42:29AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
...
| yep. it usually happened on a system that i'd just built, then i needed
| to edit a config file and ran "vi"...noticed that it's nvi rather than
| vim, so quit and "apt-get install vim vim-rt" while i'm thinking of it.
| then run
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:44:48PM +0800, Andy Chan wrote:
| Dear all,
|
| I am SOHO man. I wanna build up one ASP Server (running Debian, Tomcat,
| PostgreSQL, ...) to serve my client. If I use following hardware to setup
| that server, is possible to serve around 50 cocurrent users. Please a
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:36:25AM +0200, Andras BALI wrote:
| On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:08:36PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
|
| > I was just curious - is it possible to somehow incorporate my current
| > address book (GnomeCard) with mutt? - I would like to do something so
| > that I can tab-comp
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote:
|
| Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager
| to start X window system apart from using "xinit" related
| stuff from the command line ?
You get a nice pretty screen to login to. You can use XDMCP. You can
al
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:12:43PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
| I am very intrested in trying the debian distribution, but I am having
| trouble with the way debian wants me to get the cd. I really dont feel like
| spending money on something i could get for free, so i dont want to pay for
| a cd
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:21:40PM -0500, Rory O'Connor wrote:
...
| all appears well, but when I try to ping a local machine, I get this:
|
| PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes
| ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
| ping: wrote 192.168.0.2 64 chars, ret=-1
| ping: sendto: Operation
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:12:31PM -0400, Jeff Reed wrote:
| welp, i'm sure this problem has made it to the list a million times.
|
| strange indeed...i've been trying to install deb 2.2, freebsd 4.3,
| and even mandrake 8 on my pentium 3. as of late, it's been acting
| like a big piece of junk. r
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:53:43AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| My floppy shows (on Linux) as having a bad FAT partition , and
| therefore , Linux will not read from the floppy .
|
| What commands and what flags do I use on Linux to format the floppy
| (into whichever fs type I wish , say, FA
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 01:32:02PM +1000, Shane Broomhall wrote:
| Hi All,
|
| I have to learn how to use a Java based web portal that will run on most web
| servers. To run on Linux it needs to have Java on Apache, I have been
| advised that it is better to use something called Tomcat. Could so
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:51:04PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:
| "Karsten M. Self" wrote:
| > I'd recommend spending less time harranging the overworked list and more
| > investing in a solid set of procmail filters.
|
| I would hardly describe a suggestion sent to list admin as "harranging".
|
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 03:48:02PM +0100, Knut Ivar Skattebo wrote:
| Sound is playing at half speed on my Compaq Presario 9520 with ES1788 onboard.
| I have searched the net for a solution, but couldn't find anything.
It is using the right IRQ and DMA channel? I think if it is sharing
an interru
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:43:37PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote:
| hey,
|
| On a win2k machine, I have the "d drive" shared as a share called SEC.
| However when I try to mount the drive on linux (using the following command)
| it just says failed ...
|
| bash-2.05# mount -t smbfs -o username=fami
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:21:49AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote:
|
|
| Hello all
|
| Is it possible to make *k7.deb instead of *i386.deb ?
Yes, if you really want to. It would take you longer to recompile the
packages than to wait for the un-optimized executables. The
performance gain is n
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote:
[video card specs, etc]
| Does anyone have any ideas? This is really starting to wear me down. I'd
| love to get this laptop working.
Check out the framebuffer support in the kernel. Rebuild your kernel
to use the framebuffer inst
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:33:09AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote:
| Thanks. I'll give that a try. Do you have to have a 2.4.x kernel for that
| or will 2.2.18pre from potato work?
I have 2.4 kernels. I don't know if 2.2 contains framebuffer support
or not. I do know that the 2.4 kernels in the
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:47:34PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I' running sid on my Dell Inspiron 8100. I connect to the network via a
| PCMCIA card Xircom ethernet 10/100 in a LAN through DHCP. Everything is
| fine with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. But after switching to kernel 2.4.9 (Th
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:38:17PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
| also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:32:40PM +1000):
| > Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of thing
| > that lets you step through a line at a time running your program and put
| > watc
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:00:07AM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote:
| For some reason my debian box never propts me for a ssh password
| when loging into a sudo session. Is there some setting I need to do
| to tell it to ask me?
I'm not sure what you mean, sudo and ssh are two different things.
sudo
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:21:19PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote:
| Sorry for teh confusion. I use ssh to log in and sudo to change to the
| superuser account. I ment sudo and debian in my letter. Now here is my
Ah, ok.
| problem. I log into my remote machine by ssh and then change to the sudo
|
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:26:12PM +0200, Volker Schlecht wrote:
...
| The only thing that has changed in the meantime was my IP
| ... suggestions anyone?
From looking at the output I would guess that something (in the SMTP
delivery) is taking too long which causes your ISP's POP server to
timeo
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:38:27PM +, Hans Steinraht wrote:
| Another thing, I'm trying to do make meuconfig and make xconfig in
| the dir /usr/src/linux, as root and as normal user, but both my
| Mandrake an Debian machine it says:
| make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop.
|
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:39:11PM -0600, Pete Willemsen wrote:
| I've been attempting to get an Epson Stylus Color 880 printer to work
| with my Debian unstable system. I'm running the latest version of CUPS
| from the unstable archive and have been unsuccessful at getting
| documents to print in
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:54:26PM +0200, Andreas wrote:
| Hi!
|
| I have a real big problem: Yesterday I have edited my /etc/fstab and
| since then, I cannot run commands from my /usr/ directory.
|
| Here is my /etc/fstab:
|
| # /dev/hdb2 /usr ext2 defaults,exec,user,noatime,sync 0 2
^
| H
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:49:20PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
| * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
|
| > I had some spare time, so I fixed it up and dropped it in incoming:
| > http://incoming.debian.org/vigor_0.016-2_i386.deb. With any luck it'll
| > be installed in unstable within a week
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:12:04PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
| * Pete Willemsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
...
| Hi Pete,
| I don't know if it'll help, but here are my "ppd" and "cupsd.conf"
| files attached. THese surely work on my unstable system with an ESC 800
| printer, just like
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:08:25PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
| * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > Cool. I think the
| >
| > *LandscapeOrientation: Plus90
| >
| > line the PPD is what does it. The printer must default to landscape,
| > so the ppd tells the filte
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:39:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have cupsys version 1.1.10-3 installed.
| Now, when I type:
| debian:~# lpinfo -v
| network socket
| network http
| network ipp
| network lpd
| serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200
| serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200
| seri
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:33:45PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote:
| > [video card specs, etc]
| > | Does anyone have any ideas? This is really
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:30:25AM +0200, Erlend Bjørnson Barkbu wrote:
| I've got a Hp Laserjet 5 in my network, it is shared on a
| printserver to all the windows-machines on the network by its
| WINS-name (//server/printer-of-some-sort) .
|
| How can I use this printer?
|
| I've tried to use s
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:01:20PM -0500, José Luis Rey wrote:
| I installed kernel-image for 2.4.9 and everything went right, then I
| installed kernel-source 2.4.9 copied the configuration for the kernel
| from /boot/config-2.4.9-586tsc and did as allways:
|make dep
|make
|make module
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:06:35PM -0700, Dmitriy wrote:
| On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:02:38PM -0500, Lance Heller wrote:
| > X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4
| > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
| > Subject: dual boot with Win 2000?
| > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > Cc:
| >
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:58:21PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote:
| I've got a Debian firewall setup, which is working ok. I can DCC
| receive files, but I can't DCC send. The ip_masq_irc module is
| installed on the firewall. If I try to send, it starts trying to
| send, the receiver gets the righ
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:38:51AM +0800, a wrote:
| Do you know any free proxy server on the Internet?
What sort of data are you trying to proxy and in what sort of setup?
That is, who is requesting and who is providing the data?
-D
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 01:50:48PM -0600, Michael Fontenot wrote:
| I recently installed debian 2.2r3, including the various "parport"
| driver modules and the lp module. I also istalled "lpr". When
| the lpr command didn't print, I installed apsfilter, but it failed to
| print the test page.
|
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:52:24PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
| I'm trying to build the 2.4.9 kernel for my laptop. Everything works
| except for the PCMCIA system. When I insert the card,
| /var/log/message outputs that it's noticed the new hardware, but it
| doesn't identify the card (3COM 57
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:09:37PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote:
| I just installed woody, but can't get printing to work. When I try to
| print I get the error message that
|
|
| /dev/lp0 does not exist.
Does 'lsmod' show parport, parport-pc and lp? If not try 'insmod'-ing
them.
-D
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:09:19PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
| I have downloaded the rescue.bin and root.bin, and used rawrite2 to
| write the floppies. rescue boots just fine, but when I insert the root
| disk, the following error occurs:
|
| request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:06:01PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
| Hmmm... Ok I give up, I will make a CD, and install from that then. Is
| this the correct image for my i386 machine then:
|
| ftp://ftp.sunsite.auc.dk/mirrors/debian-cd/2.2_rev3/i386/binary-i386-1.iso
Looks like a nice URL :-). Yo
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:49:32PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
| I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well,
| the problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on
| sort of garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am
| not sure which))
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:52:20PM -0400, ANOOP KUMAR wrote:
|
| Hi,
|
| Has anyone succesfully installed resin on debian. I just switched from
| red-hat to debian and am struggling to install resin on debain to deploy
| servlets and jsp.
|
| I first installed the java( debain package jdk1.1) w
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:36:36PM -0500, Rory O'Connor wrote:
| I'm a debian newbie, and there's something driving me a bit crazy...the
| default install of debian sends me straight to X, rather than a command
| line. What do I need to do to boot up to just a plain old prompt?
|
| In addition, o
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:07:06AM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote:
| Whenever I boot up my system I get the following error message when the
| file system is being mounted:
|
| ERROR: "cannot fsck root fs because fs is not mounted read-only"
|
| and a little later the system hangs.
|
| If I boot my s
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:58:20AM +0200, J.A. de Vries wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I am having a bit of trouble with one of my systems. At boot it says:
|
| ---
| /dev/hda1 was not cleanly umnounted, check forced.
| hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } / 21.9%
| hda: dma
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:54:10PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
| Which one will do double-sided printing on my HP OfficeJet G85xi?
This printer doesn't do double-sided printing regardless of what
software you have. Only the bigger, expensive, usually laser printers
have duplex units (duplex mea
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:46:03AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:35:54AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
| > Using exim. In .forward
| >
| > if $h_MBOX-Line: contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
| > then
| > save /dev/null
| > finish
| > endif
|
| You don't have to actually
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:37:48AM -0500, Mike Grover wrote:
| Hi all,
| I am new to using debian.
| I have just finished installing ver 2.2 r3 and was wondering how I
| go about setting up network cards?
|
| I have a ne2000 in the machine, but when I type ifconfig, All
| I see is the lo
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:22:00AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:04:10PM -0400, dman wrote:
| > Neat, thanks. (I want to switch from procmail to exim, but haven't
| > tested by rules yet). Say, how do you use maildir folders with exim
| > filters?
|
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:56:24PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
| > Ok, here's the details :
[
snipped here, if you want them see the old thread (I forgot to
change the subject last time) or ask for a private post
]
| Not boring dman, fascinating!
Cool.
| I must say
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:02:11PM +0100, John W Sherman wrote:
| Is it possible to download (from anywhere) a single floppy disk
| (1.44) that will provide access to installation from the CD-ROMS
| onto a clean system with no dos and will format as Linux.
Have you seen
http://www.debian.org
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:14:33PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:54:10PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
| > | Which one will do double-sided printing on my HP OfficeJet G85xi?
| >
| > This printer doesn't d
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:00:22AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote:
| On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:11:08PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
| > Matthew Sackman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
| > > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/
| > >
| > > I've never done t
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. æ
| and ø). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line,
| and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they
| are
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:42:19PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
| I've tried grub _and_ lilo. Grub just comes up in the interactive menu.
| Lilo starts loading the kernel and then the kernel spits out this meesage.
Is this the same machine you just asked about the initrd stuff for?
To boot with an ini
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 02:45:38PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
| According to Alvin Oga:
| > hi ya miquel
| >
| > > > if you are worried about security
| > > > - disable dhcp and use all ip# defined by the "mask"
| > >
| > > That doesn't make much sense.
| >
| > if one has
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:10:03AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| > I don't know if this is your problem, but I recently
| > helped a friend troubleshoot his mandrake laptop,
| > and found that to get ppp to work we had to bring
| > down eth0 for some reason. It seems like you
| > shouldn't have t
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:41:11AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
| I brought a machine home from work, and did some updates on it ths weekend.
| During these I was offered the option of letting debconf configure the
| network. I alowed this to happen.
|
| Now the machine tries to do dhcp! Which I don't
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:57:15AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| > ... I can verify, though, that using a machine as an
| > ethernet LAN => PPP WAN gateway works quite
| > well...
|
| I don't doubt that it does, but this machine probably *always*
| uses ppp, right ?? That's not my case. I defined
ingly
| simple thing :\
Yeah, the coloring in view is neat, but the scrolling and quitting
wasn't as convenient for a pager which is why I don't use it.
| PS thanks for the view suggestion, btw, dman; at least I can see those
| Germanic characters in all their glory now :)
Cool!
-D
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 03:59:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
I don't have a strong opinion at the moment as to whose responsibility
it is, but maybe the following (untested) code snippet will help you.
| in the case of it being my responsibility to open it non-blocking, how
| would i
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